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Michael Buettner
Personal information
Born (1973-10-30) 30 October 1973 (age 50)
Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight93 kg (14 st 9 lb)
PositionCentre, Five-eighth
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1992–95 Parramatta Eels 79 17 73 0 214
1996–99 North Sydney Bears 95 58 2 0 236
2000 Northern Eagles 23 7 2 0 32
2001–02 Parramatta Eels 50 12 0 0 48
2003–04 Wests Tigers 16 2 0 0 8
Total 263 96 77 0 538
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1996 Australia 1 2 0 0 8
1997 New South Wales 1 0 0 0 0
1997 NSW City 1 0 0 0 0
Source: [1][2]

Michael Buettner (born 30 October 1973 in Fairfield, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league official and former professional footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative back, he played club football for the North Sydney Bears, the Northern Eagles, the Parramatta Eels and the Wests Tigers.

Playing career

While attending Westfields Sports High School, Buettner played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1991.[3]

A Parramatta junior, Buettner made his first-grade début for the Eels in round 4 1992, against the Sydney Roosters at Aussie Stadium on 12 April. At the end of that season he won the Eric Grothe award, as the Eels' rookie of the year.

Buettner spent four seasons in the back-line at Parramatta before moving to the North Sydney Bears as a replacement for centre Ivan Cleary. In 1996, Buettner was selected to represent Australia at five-eighth in a match against Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. He scored two tries. In the 1996 & 1997 seasons, Buettner was part of The Norths side which made consecutive preliminary final appearances but fell short on both occasions. [4]

Buettner was selected to represent New South Wales as an interchange for game III of the 1997 State of Origin series. In 1998 he scored a North Sydney record 21 tries in a season. In 2000, Norths and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles merged to become the Northern Eagles. Buettner stayed for one season but, like many former North Sydney players, soon left.

For the 2001 NRL season Buettner returned to the Parramatta Eels. He played for Parramatta at five-eighth in their 2001 NRL grand final loss to the Newcastle Knights alongside former North Sydney teammate Jason Taylor. Buettner left the Eels for the Wests Tigers in 2003 but he only played sixteen games in two seasons and retired at the end of the 2004 NRL season.

Post playing

Formerly the NRL's game liaison manager, Buettner is currently competition manager for the National Youth 20s tournament, the Holden Cup.[5] He also serves on the NRL Judiciary, where he is the match review committee coordinator .[6][7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Michael Buettner at the Rugby League Project
  2. ^ NRL Stats[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Retrieved 10 October 2008. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/michael-buettner/summary.html
  5. ^ "Toyota Cup to Kick off in 2008". NRL.com. 12 April 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2007. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ Dean Ritchie and Christian Nicolussi (4 June 2010). "Johnathan Thurston let-off backfires on NRL". The Daily Telegraph. Australia: Herald and Weekly Times. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  7. ^ "Buettner explains Hayne ref contact". nrl.com. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.

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